Chapter 1: Demystifying China’s Stock Market: The Hidden Logic behind the Puzzles -- Chapter 2: What Does History Tell Us? The Roots of China’s Modern Stock Market -- Chapter 3: A Government-Dominated Financial System -- Chapter 4: A Chinese style speculative market -- Chapter 5: The...

Gevorg Hunanyan develops a model that provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to study the consequences of short-sale constraints on the stability of financial markets. This model shows that overpricing of securities is solely attributable to the subjective second moment beliefs of...

1. Normative Foundations -- Part I: Financial Economics and Macroeconomics after WWII -- 2. The Second Financialisation -- 3. The Emergence of Modern Financial Economics -- 4. Finance and Macroeconomics -- Part II: The regulation of the financial system after the crisis -- 5. The Great Financial...

Part I. Blockchain Economics and Financial Market Innovation -- Corporate Finance in the New Business Ecosystem in Digital Age -- The Global Financial System's New Tool: Digital Money -- Redesigning Current Banknotes with Blockchain Infrastructure: A Model Proposal -- Initial Coin Offerings:...

This Palgrave Pivot begins with a broad focus on financial sector development as a whole, highlighting areas such as the money market, payment system, and the capital market, as well as issues such as regulatory strategy, capacity building of financial firms and service providers, and financial...

1. Introduction -- Part I: Global real interest rates, economic and trade growth uncertainty shock effects on the South African economy -- 2. Is BRICS GDP growth a source of shocks or an amplifier of global growth responses? What are the policy implications for South Africa? -- 3. Global...

When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved. But is it?...

1. Introduction -- 2. General Observations -- 3. FinTech and Market-based Financing -- 4. European Approaches to FinTech: The Role of Regulation and the Evolution of Supervision -- 5. FinTech, Chain Transactions and Open Banking -- 6. FinTech Firms -- 7. FinTech and Money -- 8. FinTech, RegTech...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Typology of Shadow Banking -- 3. Financial Intermediation: A Further Analysis -- 4. Securities Lending and Repos -- 5. Central Counterparties and Systemic Risk -- 6. Identifying Non-bank, Non-insurer Global Systemically Important Financial Institutions -- 7.The Policy...

1. The Macroeconomic Dimensions of Shadow Banking -- 2. Shadow Banking Around the Globe -- 3. The EU Shadow Banking Market -- 4. Shadow Banking in the Americas -- 5. Shadow Banking in Asia -- 6. Shadow Banking in (South) Africa -- 7. Future Directions -- 8. Statement of Principal Conclusions.